Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-11-02

Ahest Hat

Did you ever observe thst . mans
disposition can be read by the style Of
hat he wears and the way he wears Il?
Not 90 with . woman There il more
diversity Of style in women's hats than
mems But . woman always wears
her hat according to the way she has
her hair fixed up. So that 4 woman's
hat can be no index to female char.
acter.
It is different with men. There 10 =
close intimacy between the styles Of
mems headgear and the science Of
phrenology. The hat il the bump
which infallibly denotes the most
prominent trait Of character. When .
man buys q hat he is governed in the
selection by the peculiar organism Of
the brain. It doesnt make any differ
ence whether the particular hat he Sc
lects 10 becoming to him or not, he
prefers it because he is built that way.
II he wears an u~nbecoming hat he Is
not responsible for it. A man never
looks in . mirror when he tries . hat
on. A woman always does.
Tho tall silk hat denotes financial
ability. Bankers, hotel clerks, and
police reporters always woa silk hats.
Rich men do not always wear silk hats,
nor are men who veal silk hats always
rich. Still, the silk hat is an unerring
sign of capacity for handling finances
successfully. It isn't every man who
possesses financial ability that gets
rich, nor is it every man who gets rich
that possesses skill in financiering. Not
l Nv, . srxr e~r1l WA nkmkn AEsu chat &hA
public mind may not get confused on
these points
The derby hat denotes energy. A
man who wears q derby always has the
appearance Of being on the go. It is a
ready-for-all-occasions hat. It is at
homo whether at church or on the
baseball grounds. The derby is .
nobby little cross between the silk and
the SLOUGH. 1t is an accommodating
hat. The clergyman looks we'll in it,
and it fits the bartender to . IT." And
all the time it has a pushing go-ahead-
itiveness in its appearance that makes
everything side-switch when the derby
passes by.
And then there is the SLOUGH hat.
All, there is the hat Of liberty for you.
The SLOUGH hat is the original old COM
moner. It is the hat for the masses
democratic in style and republican in
its simplicity. There is nothing that
symbolizes pure, unadulterated Ameri-
canism so we'll as the SLOUGH hat. The
SLOUGH hat denotes sociability. It is
the unfailing index of genial tempera-
ment. It means that the wearer is q
good fellow that will do to tie to. He
may be Q bank president or he may be
q cowboy. still you can rely on his being
q hale companion wherever you meet
him. possessing sturdy independence
of character, and always ready to ex-
tend Q helping hand wherever it is
needed.
The man who wears his hat per-
~pendicularly, whether it is o tile, o
derby, on a SLOUGH. has the bump of
self-esteem we'll developed. He thinks
that he is the upper crust of the pie
and is entitled to recognition. The
man who wears his hat down we the
forehead is o thoughtful man. He is
studious and communes with himself a
great deal, and sometimes inclined to
moroseness.
But the man who wears his hat on
the back of his head is the one who
doesn't care whether school keeps or
not. He is independent and self-re-
liant, and n day is with him q M
other. lie takes note of neither time
nor individuals. He is usually popular
because he is always generous. Sailors
and soldiers and jockeys and baseball
players are not included in this ~classifi-
cation because they always wea caps.
-St. Paul Globe.